Buy this many issues with drives needing data recovery is before you can use any software you need to have repaired firmware or at worst perfomed a platter swap in an IS0 Certified clean room.

abc Data Recovery Ltd have one of the few ISO-3 (fed 209e class 1) certified clean rooms in Europe and has established itself as one of the leaders in large capacity drive rebuild and repair.

With its development of inexpensive stainless steel tools to work on seized bearings on large capacity drive of 300gb , 400gb, 500gb 750gb, 1TB and 1.5TB we have ensured any drives not capable of recovery by software can be rebuilt so that the an umage can be made to ensure the software is given the best chance without first risking the data .

If you believe the drive is at all faulty never use software, consult a hard drive repair center with its own clean room certification:-

http://www.abcdatarecovery.co.uk/Clean-Room-Certificate.pdf

abc now have 20 staff since starting in 2005 and have recruited from the top UK data recovery companies in order to ensure R&D and price reductions can be achieved. Many of our resellers have been able to cut their prices in half when compared with their previous data recovery lab… all this and increased success rates.